Jane Wagner & Lily Tomlin in Conversation With Hilton Als

Hilton Als and Lily Tomlin join Jane Wagner to celebrate Wagner's culture shifting work and expansive legacy. Jane Wagner is one of America’s most distinguished playwrights. Wagner won a New York Drama Critics’ Circle Special Award and a New York Drama Desk Award for her Broadway success, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe; a CableAce Award for Executive Producing the film adaptation of The Search; three Grammy nominations for comedy albums she wrote with Lily Tomlin, Modern Scream, And That’s the Truth, and On Stage; and two Peabody Awards–the first for the CBS television special, J.T., and the second for the ABC television special, Edith Ann’s Christmas: Just Say Noël. Multi-hyphenate performer Lily Tomlin has received numerous awards, including: seven Emmys; a Tony for her one woman Broadway show, Appearing Nitely; a second Tony for Best Actress, a Drama Desk Award for her one woman performance in her wife’s Jane Wagner’s The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. Tomlin can currently be seen in the hit Netflix show Grace and Frankie. Hilton Als became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1994 and a theatre critic in 2002. He began contributing to the magazine in 1989, writing pieces for “The Talk of the Town.” His most recent book, White Girls, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2014, discusses various narratives of race and gender. He was awarded a Guggenheim for creative writing in 2000 and the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for 2002-03. June 30th, 2020 ---- Throughout June 2020 Lambda Literary celebrated Pride with some of our community’s biggest stars in a series of online readings and conversations.